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Look through the newspaper headlines in Hampton Roads during the early fall of 1918 and its all about the American troops headed to Europe for World War I. Then the first reports of the Spanish flu begin to crop up on the inside pages in mid-September -- barely noticed before jumping to the front and dominating the local news for more than a month with stories of sickness, quarantine and death. So quickly did the epidemic erupt from the first reported cases at the navy base in Norfolk and docks in Newport News that the deadly virus seemed less like a disease and more like some sort of diabolical wildfire. Thousands of Hampton Roads residents contracted the "grip," as it was...

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